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Another Putin critic died after falling out of a window​

Rebecca Cohen
Dec 27, 2022, 10:34 AM
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to the welcoming ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia, on November 23, 2022.Contributor/Getty Images
  • A second Vladimir Putin critic has died after falling from a hotel window.
  • Pavel Antov, 65, died Sunday in India just days after celebrating his 65th birthday.
  • A June WhatsApp message linked to Antov's account was seen as critical of Putin's war in Ukraine.
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A second critic of Vladimir Putin died Sunday after reportedly falling out of a window, Russian media outlet TASS reported.

According to reports, Pavel Antov fell from a hotel window in Rayagada, India, just days after celebrating his 65th birthday. He was visiting the state of Odisha in eastern India. :wow:

Antov was the chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy, Nature Management and Ecology of the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region and was well known in the region, according to TASS.

"Our colleague, a successful entrepreneur, philanthropist Pavel Antov passed away," Vice Speaker of the Regional Parliament Vyacheslav Kartukhin said on his Telegram channel, TASS reported. "On behalf of the deputies of the United Russia faction, I express my deep condolences to relatives and friends."

The speaker of the legislative assembly, Vladimir Kiselyov, called Antov's death a "difficult and irreparable loss" in a statement on the website of the regional parliament, TASS reported.

Antov was a known critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the BBC reported.

The BBC reported that a since-deleted June WhatsApp message linked to Antov's account — and shared after a Russian missile strike in Kyiv that killed a man and left his wife and seven-year-old daughter wounded — was seen as critical of Putin's war in Ukraine.

"It's extremely difficult to call all this anything but terror," the WhatsApp message said. Antov quickly deflected on social media, insisting he was a supporter of the war and Putin, adding that the message came from a war critic with whom he does not agree and it was all a misunderstanding, the BBC reported.

Antov is the second Putin critic to die after falling from a window.
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In September, Russian energy oligarch Ravil Maganov, 67, died after falling from a hospital window, Insider reported at the time.

The 67-year-old oil tyc00n died after his oil company, Lukoil, released a statement expressing "deepest concerns" about President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

Another Russian traveling with Antov also reportedly died at the hotel in India on Friday, according to The BBC.

The BBC reported Odisha police Superintendent Vivekananda Sharma said Budanov died of a stroke. Sharma added that Antov "was depressed after his death and he too died."

Alexei Idamkin, The Russian consul in Kolkata, told the TASS that police did not see a "criminal element in these tragic events," The BBC reported. :mjpls:

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Russian sausage tyc00n Pavel Antov dies in Indian hotel fall
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Antov had set up the Vladimir Standard company in the 2000s and became a well-regarded lawmaker in VladimirPavel Antov/VK
Antov had set up the Vladimir Standard company in the 2000s and became a well-regarded lawmaker in the city of Vladimir
Russian sausage tyc00n Pavel Antov has been found dead at an Indian hotel, two days after a friend died during the same trip.

They were visiting the eastern state of Odisha and the millionaire, who was also a local politician, had just celebrated his birthday at the hotel.

Antov was a well known figure in the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow.

Last summer he denied criticising Russia's war in Ukraine after a message appeared on his WhatsApp account.

The millionaire's death is the latest in a series of unexplained deaths involving Russian tyc00ns since the start of the Russian invasion, many of whom have openly criticised the war.

Reports in Russian media said Mr Antov, 65, had fallen from a window at the hotel in the city of Rayagada on Sunday. Another member of his four-strong Russian group, Vladimir Budanov, died at the hotel on Friday.

Superintendent Vivekananda Sharma of Odisha police said Mr Budanov was found to have suffered a stroke while his friend "was depressed after his death and he too died". The Russian consul in Kolkata, Alexei Idamkin, told the Tass news agency that police did not see a "criminal element in these tragic events".
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Tourist guide Jitendra Singh told reporters that Mr Budanov may have "consumed a lot of alcohol as he had liquor bottles".

Pavel Antov founded the Vladimir Standard meat processing plant and in 2019 Forbes estimated his fortune at some $140m (£118m) at the top of Russia's rich list of lawmakers and civil servants.

He played an important role at the legislative assembly in Vladimir, heading a committee on agrarian policy and ecology. The assembly's deputy chairman Vyacheslav Kartukhin said he had died in "tragic circumstances".

Late last June he appeared to react to a Russian missile attack on a residential block in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv that left a man dead and his seven-year-old daughter and her mother wounded.

A WhatsApp message on Antov's account described how the family were pulled out of the rubble: "It's extremely difficult to call all this anything but terror."

The message was deleted and Antov then posted on social media that he was a supporter of the president, a "patriot of my country" and backed the war.

The WhatsApp message had come from someone whose opinion on the "special military operation in Ukraine" he strongly disagreed with, he insisted. It had been posted accidentally on his messenger and was a highly annoying misunderstanding, he said.

Several high-profile Russian tyc00ns have died in mysterious circumstances since the war began.

In September the head of Russia's oil giant Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, apparently fell from a hospital window in Moscow.
 
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